Earlier this month, I went to Australia for a very short time. The trip was definitely one of my memorable experience. In 3 straight days, I shot 3 couples in 3 different cities.

Arrived in Sydney in the morning, then I catched the next flight to Melbourne, which 30 minutes away from my arrival in Sydney.

The first city that I visited was Melbourne. The weather in Melbourne wasn’t too friendly for us. Drizzling all day during our session. It was windy and so cold, remembering me coming from Jakarta.

We started the session right away. Short session on the alleys for about 45 minutes. Grabbed some lunch then continue with our session in several places until around 7P.M

I was in Melbourne for only few hours, because I need to catched up a flight to fly back to Sydney that night. I wish I had more time to spend there, explore the city more, and taste some more good food! (thanks Janssen + Emilia, I definitely will come back to that Japanese restaurant)

Big thanks to Janssen and Emilia, who were very cooperative during the session.

When we announced our interest to join the race in Indonesian wedding photography industry a while back, we honestly were over-excited. I studied the industry by looking at what’s on the market only. I honestly was naive. Indonesian wedding photography industry was like a jungle, it’s a completely different industry than what we have experienced in Australia. In Australia, people here appreciate the natural chemistry of the couple. We survived until now purely by our good product and service. People never hesitate to recommend our die-hard service and awesome photography.

But in Indonesia, it’s not about the photo only if you want to be successful there. It’s about how we present to the public. The better in visual will have a better chance of selling. The more sensational the company, it will have a better chance of getting accepted by the public. In short, being photographers who aim for timeless and natural can easily be regarded as boring photography.

Are we there to change our belief?

There is the quote saying “Whatever priceless in the future, it should be expensive now”. We believe natural shots and true moments are still our choice in producing timeless photo. We are determined to show to Indonesian couples that we are not just photographers who earn the living from shooting weddings but we also care so much in creating others’ priceless memory. It’s never about business only for us.

In order to do that, we need to have a leader who dares to dream like us. That’s how the partnership between Poetih Photography and Foto Expression are happening.

Jeff O’Neal, the founder of Poetih Photography, is an international award winning photographer and has the same belief with us on what great wedding photos are all about. Having him in our team, it’s like being born again for the first time since we founded our company 7 years ago. With him as one of our principle photographers (joining myself, Ilona Lee, Joan Efrata, Ken Kawitana and Mario Jr), Foto Expression is on the right track of spreading the good words of wedding photography in our version to the world.

We are truly very excited to have Jeff on board!! So for Indonesian couple, you can now have Jeff O’Neal from Foto Expression as your choice for wedding photographer. He is based in Jakarta, Indonesia but his service covers all area of Indonesia and Australia. You can see more details of him in www.jeff.fotoexpression.com or join his twitter in @jeff_oneal

Send your best wishes to Jeff and please welcome him in his new [Foto Expression] family!!

Danny and Julie are the BIG films couple. Our cinematography team is definitely going to have a blast time shooting their wedding day.

It was a perfect afternoon with a perfect couple. Plus the whole team happened to be available to shoot this couple – it was a rare opportunity! We definitely had a great time hanging out as Danny and Julie were just so friendly to us. If it wasn’t dinner time, I think we would still continue chatting!! ^_^

Thanks guys.. have fun with our the BIG Films team!!

Hello guys,

This is what I shot in my first wedding in 2012.

For the Sydneysiders, I am sure you all know that we are having the wettest summer (a.k.a the nastiest summer ) since 1998. That day we have to face that uncertainty with the weather. Yes, we started our day with cloudy weather, then the rain came on and off until night. Thanks to our couple for being cooperative (and remain calm!) during the location shoot, we finally nailed it and delivered outstanding results!

Burhan and Asih were bumped into each other at church and been dating for the past 1.5 years. According to the best man speech, Burhan is type of sweet and hardworking guy that you can always depend on, and you can always count on him to be there for. He is the type of guy who never say bad about other people. I could not agree more. Asih is very loving girl who really understanding and care for Burhan. After knowing Asih for a little longer, you will start to see the fun side of her.

That’s it from me for now, preparing myself for sunny and bright Easter break! Congratulation once again guys. May your days ahead be filled with magic.